Устали от драмы вокруг? Найдите убежище в классической английской драме!Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы "Тэсс из рода д’Эрбервиллей", "Вдали от обезумевшей толпы", "Джуд Незаметный" и многие другие снискали давнее признание и обрели множество экранизаций. "Тэсс" рассказывает о трагической судьбе крестьянской девушки, принадлежавшей к древнему рыцарскому роду. Но вместе с благородным происхождением Тесс обрела и много бед. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь изысканным английским языком Томаса Гарди в оригинале!

Устали от драмы вокруг? Найдите убежище в классической английской драме!Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы "Тэсс из рода д’Эрбервиллей", "Вдали от обезумевшей толпы", "Джуд Незаметный" и многие другие снискали давнее признание и обрели множество экранизаций. "Тэсс" рассказывает о трагической судьбе крестьянской девушки, принадлежавшей к древнему рыцарскому роду. Но вместе с благородным происхождением Тесс обрела и много бед. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь изысканным английским языком Томаса Гарди в оригинале!

An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literatures most admirable and tragic heroines... Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her neer-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the dUrbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin--a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements

An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literatures most admirable and tragic heroines... Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her neer-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the dUrbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin--a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements

Устали от драмы вокруг? Найдите убежище в классической английской драме! Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы "Тэсс из рода д'Эрбервиллей", "Вдали от обезумевшей толпы", "Джуд Незаметный" и многие другие снискали давнее признание и обрели множество экранизаций. "Тэсс" рассказывает о трагической судьбе крестьянской девушки, принадлежавшей к древнему рыцарскому роду. Но вместе с благородным происхождением Тесс обрела и много бед. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь изысканным английским языком Томаса Гарди в оригинале!

Устали от драмы вокруг? Найдите убежище в классической английской драме! Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы "Тэсс из рода д'Эрбервиллей", "Вдали от обезумевшей толпы", "Джуд Незаметный" и многие другие снискали давнее признание и обрели множество экранизаций. "Тэсс" рассказывает о трагической судьбе крестьянской девушки, принадлежавшей к древнему рыцарскому роду. Но вместе с благородным происхождением Тесс обрела и много бед. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь изысканным английским языком Томаса Гарди в оригинале!

Устали от драмы вокруг? Найдите убежище в классической английской драме!Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы "Тэсс из рода д’Эрбервиллей", "Вдали от обезумевшей толпы", "Джуд Незаметный" и многие другие снискали давнее признание и обрели множество экранизаций. "Тэсс" рассказывает о трагической судьбе крестьянской девушки, принадлежавшей к древнему рыцарскому роду. Но вместе с благородным происхождением Тесс обрела и много бед. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь изысканным английским языком Томаса Гарди в оригинале!

Устали от драмы вокруг? Найдите убежище в классической английской драме!Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы «Тэсс из рода д’Эрбервиллей», «Вдали от обезумевшей толпы», «Джуд Незаметный» и многие другие снискали давнее признание и обрели множество экранизаций. «Тэсс» рассказывает о трагической судьбе крестьянской девушки, принадлежавшей к древнему рыцарскому роду. Но вместе с благородным происхождением Тесс обрела и много бед. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь изысканным английским языком Томаса Гарди в оригинале!

Устали от драмы вокруг? Найдите убежище в классической английской драме!Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы "Тэсс из рода д’Эрбервиллей", "Вдали от обезумевшей толпы", "Джуд Незаметный" и многие другие снискали давнее признание и обрели множество экранизаций. "Тэсс" рассказывает о трагической судьбе крестьянской девушки, принадлежавшей к древнему рыцарскому роду. Но вместе с благородным происхождением Тесс обрела и много бед. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь изысканным английским языком Томаса Гарди в оригинале!

Устали от драмы вокруг? Найдите убежище в классической английской драме!Томас Гарди - английский писатель-романист XIX-XX вв. Его романы «Тэсс из рода д’Эрбервиллей», «Вдали от обезумевшей толпы», «Джуд Незаметный» и многие другие снискали давнее признание и обрели множество экранизаций. «Тэсс» рассказывает о трагической судьбе крестьянской девушки, принадлежавшей к древнему рыцарскому роду. Но вместе с благородным происхождением Тесс обрела и много бед. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь изысканным английским языком Томаса Гарди в оригинале!

For Tess, her older sister Bella is her whole world. She’s smart and beautiful and popular - everything Tess isn’t - and since the death of their mother it’s just been them and their grieving father. But now a new family has moved into the empty house on the edge of the woods, bringing with them a world of boys and alcohol, and Tess can feel her sister slipping away from her. Until the bodies of two local schoolgirls are found in the woods, and Tess is convinced that this new family has something to hide. As events threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, Bella and Tess determine to bring the truth to light. So the two girls go into the woods...

For Tess, her older sister Bella is her whole world. She’s smart and beautiful and popular - everything Tess isn’t - and since the death of their mother it’s just been them and their grieving father. But now a new family has moved into the empty house on the edge of the woods, bringing with them a world of boys and alcohol, and Tess can feel her sister slipping away from her. Until the bodies of two local schoolgirls are found in the woods, and Tess is convinced that this new family has something to hide. As events threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, Bella and Tess determine to bring the truth to light. So the two girls go into the woods...

With its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels. When its heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.

The Stolen Marriage is a compelling novel from Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister, Pretending to Dance and The Midwife’s Confession. In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina. Hickory is a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess’s new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she’s trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out. The people of Hickory love and respect Henry and see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain, especially after one of the town’s prominent citizens dies in a terrible accident and Tess is blamed for the death. Tess suspects people are talking about her, plotting behind her back, and following her as she walks around town. What does everyone know about Henry that she does not? Feeling alone and adrift in a hostile town, Tess turns to the one person who seems to understand her – a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he’s letting on. When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town, taking the lives of some of its children, including a boy well known to the Kraft family, the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital in less than three days. Tess, who has a nursing degree, bucks Henry’s wishes and begins to work at the hospital, finding meaning in nursing the young victims. Yet at home, Henry’s actions grow more baffling and alarming by the day. As Tess works to save the lives of her patients, can she untangle her husband’s mysterious behavior and save her own life?

The Stolen Marriage is a compelling novel from Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister, Pretending to Dance and The Midwife’s Confession. In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina. Hickory is a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess’s new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she’s trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out. The people of Hickory love and respect Henry and see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain, especially after one of the town’s prominent citizens dies in a terrible accident and Tess is blamed for the death. Tess suspects people are talking about her, plotting behind her back, and following her as she walks around town. What does everyone know about Henry that she does not? Feeling alone and adrift in a hostile town, Tess turns to the one person who seems to understand her – a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he’s letting on. When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town, taking the lives of some of its children, including a boy well known to the Kraft family, the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital in less than three days. Tess, who has a nursing degree, bucks Henry’s wishes and begins to work at the hospital, finding meaning in nursing the young victims. Yet at home, Henry’s actions grow more baffling and alarming by the day. As Tess works to save the lives of her patients, can she untangle her husband’s mysterious behavior and save her own life?